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<blockquote data-quote="Bayushi_seikuro" data-source="post: 9447462" data-attributes="member: 7024851">By 'equal at the table', what I meant to state was that the DM has an equal right to enjoyment at the table.&nbsp; If both the DM and the players have enjoyment from 'Well, they never check the floor for traps so I'll put pit traps in' 'Oh, now they're using ten foot poles to avoid those traps, so now I'll create ear worms for when they listen at doors' - as was the case in Gygax's table from their own stories - so be it.&nbsp; Gygax CLEARLY enjoyed running his table, and clearly his players enjoyed rising to the challenges.&nbsp; BUT, again if you read the 1e DMG when he's talking about campaign time tracking, he also clearly incentivized his players to play every single day and specifically cites times where a group couldn't get together so another group managed to clear out monsters before they could, thus getting material benefit in-game.TLDR - I mean the DM to be equal in the sense that they should get as much back out of the game - through their creations - as the players get by interacting in that setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bayushi_seikuro, post: 9447462, member: 7024851"] By 'equal at the table', what I meant to state was that the DM has an equal right to enjoyment at the table. If both the DM and the players have enjoyment from 'Well, they never check the floor for traps so I'll put pit traps in' 'Oh, now they're using ten foot poles to avoid those traps, so now I'll create ear worms for when they listen at doors' - as was the case in Gygax's table from their own stories - so be it. Gygax CLEARLY enjoyed running his table, and clearly his players enjoyed rising to the challenges. BUT, again if you read the 1e DMG when he's talking about campaign time tracking, he also clearly incentivized his players to play every single day and specifically cites times where a group couldn't get together so another group managed to clear out monsters before they could, thus getting material benefit in-game. TLDR - I mean the DM to be equal in the sense that they should get as much back out of the game - through their creations - as the players get by interacting in that setting. [/QUOTE]

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